Shiroyama, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
Satsuma-no-Yu at SHIROYAMA HOTEL kagoshima
A strong pick for a one-off soak with a view of Sakurajima, but adult admission is ¥3,500. If spring quality, a sauna or a low price matters more, a local sento is the more practical choice.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Day bathing is available year-round from 13:00 to 21:00.
- Access
- The hotel operates a free shuttle serving Kagoshima-Chuo Station and the Tenmonkan area.
- Tattoo policy
- Not permitted. The hotel's current official information explicitly bars bathers with tattoos. The hot-spring page does not list an exception for cover stickers.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 54.2°C at the source; this is not a fixed bathing-pool temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Natural spring from about 1,000 m beneath Shiroyama.
- Spring classification
- Bicarbonate spring.
- pH
- Not published in the current official material reviewed.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The hotel says its panoramic indoor and open-air baths use natural spring water. It describes the separate private baths as source-flowing, but does not publish complete treatment details for each pool in the regular day-use baths. The private-bath claim is not applied to the general baths.
Bathing indications
The hotel lists general and spring-type bathing indications, including cuts, burns, chronic skin conditions, neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, sensitivity to cold and fatigue. These are not treatment guarantees.
The regular baths' pool-by-pool water addition, heating, circulation and disinfection conditions are not fully published. The source-flowing description applies to the separate private baths only.
Adult admission is ¥3,500, including bathing tax for guests aged 16 and over. Towels, bathing amenities and hair dryers are included. Tattoos are not permitted.
How to read a bath profile
Spring-source temperature and actual bathing temperature are kept separate. Each score is shown independently for comparison rather than collapsed into one overall score.
